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That's how I started my internship at BookPeople. Well. I started working the day after that, and it's a testament to how good the people are here that my situation was resolved in a few days. Here's how it all started. My name is R and I'm French. 100%. I was born in Alençon, and … Continue reading Conned and homeless on my first day in the United States.
This is an excerpt from The Big Book of Kombucha: Brewing, Flavoring, and Enjoying the Health Benefits of Fermented Tea by Kombucha Camp creators Hannah Crum and Alex Lagory. The duo will speak and sign here next Thursday, 5/26 at 7PM. Top 5 Ways Kombucha Relieves Stress The stress response is one of the body’s most valuable … Continue reading Get to Know The Big Book of Kombucha
This post comes from our former bookseller Steven Warren. There are a number of high water marks that a person hits on the way to actual, mental adulthood. Things like financial independence, the onset of bodily failure, and becoming genuinely annoyed by teenagers and their antics are all telltale signs of maybe kind of being … Continue reading Stephen’s Pick: DAVE HILL DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
BookPeople is proud to partner with the Austin American-Statesman for their monthly Statesman Selects program. Each month, BookPeople will highlight the Statesman’s top recommended read for Austin. May's pick is White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer. Dyer will join us here at BookPeople Thursday, May 19 at 7PM to speak and … Continue reading Statesman Selects in May: WHITE SANDS by Geoff Dyer
R, our exchange intern from France, asked some of our booksellers what they're currently reading: Sarah H is reading: A Hundred Thousand Worlds by Bob Proehl [coming out in June] It took her a while to get into this story about a woman and her kid on a road-trip through the United States, but the further … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
LaRose: A Novel by Louise Erdrich In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident, a demand for justice, and a profound act … Continue reading New Books! 5/10/16
By Gregory Day and Chris Hollingsworth The preface to Robert Phillip Kolker’s The Altering Eye begins thusly: “Narrative film can set out to please its audience, soothe it, meet and reinforce its expectations. Or it can challenge, question, and probe, inquire about itself, its audience, and the world that both inhabit and reflect. This is … Continue reading Difficult Pictures: Art Cinema in the 21st Century
This post come from our inventory manager Jan. If you could travel back in time, what would you do? What would you change? It’s not everyday you get the opportunity to read a conversational icebreaker expanded in a 273 page novel. The question discloses character. If you’re Hermione Granger, for example, you use time travel … Continue reading Every Anxious Word…Has Meaning When Time Becomes Your Road
Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde by John Boessenecker (speaking & signing this Sunday at 3PM!) To most Americans, Frank Hamer is known only as the “villain” of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. Now, in Texas Ranger, historian John Boessenecker sets out to restore Hamer’s good … Continue reading New Books! 4/26/15
This post comes from our bookseller Mona. Mona’s first edition of North Toward Home. Willie Morris’ 1967 autobiography is her staff selection for Saint George’s Day. In celebration of the life of St. George, the Roman military martyr (whose official feast date was April 23), our booksellers have been honoring a centuries old tradition of … Continue reading #StaffPick: Willie Morris’s NORTH TOWARD HOME
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